kinfolk

Example Sentences

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The best example of this is the famous "Key & Peele" skit of President Obama reserving dap for skin folk and kinfolk alike while extending the standard handshake for white folks.

From Salon • Feb. 19, 2024

Tom Hanks plays a former Confederate Army officer tasked with shepherding an orphaned girl across Texas to her surviving kinfolk in the 2020 western “News of the World.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2021

And it all started in those early years with her inclination to view trees as kinfolk.

From New York Times • Jul. 30, 2021

And if yours is a family business, your kinfolk warrant an extra measure of scrutiny as well.

From Washington Post • Jan. 26, 2021

Is he afeared of hurtin’ the feelin’s of some of his woman’s kinfolk down in Kaintuck?

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt